An In-Depth Look At The Nokia N91 - Nokia's Only Model to have a built in Hard Drive!

[@SMOOREZ]

Hey there, hope you enjoyed this one! Tried to have a more structured approach to this video, was fun to make this though and having a look back on it. If you own one or are thinking of getting one, feel free to let me know down below! Anyways, thanks again for watching, I really do appreciate it! Stay tuned and I'll see you in the next one :) TIMESTAMPS: Introduction: 0:00 The History of Nokia N91: 0:27 The Tech Specs of the Nokia N91: 2:08 My own experience with the Nokia N91: 4:32 Nokia N91 availability and more history: 6:47 Looking around the Nokia N91: 8:18 Powering it on & how the hard drive operates: 10:36 User Interface, buttons & the slider: 11:53 The Camera: 13:29 Camera Test: 14:27 Wallpapers, Camera Quality & More on the Hard Drive: 16:23 Phone Settings, File Manager etc: 17:41 Ringtones: 18:53 More apps, themes, connections etc: 23:50 Stuff I installed & Attempted Browser Test: 25:14 Even more apps & trying Java Games: 26:16 BONUS - How DOOM runs on the Nokia N95: 29:30 How the Nokia N91 performs in the Audio Department: 31:07 Conclusion: 34:07 Teardown - Repairing the speaker in my Nokia N91: 35:16 Teardown - Motherboard & The Smallest Hard Drive Ever: 37:36 Did I destroy the drive & my last N91: 41:27 Final Thoughts: 42:25 Outro: 43:30 The full HDD teardown video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3OTfJd3n5pnrsk Be good people!

[@fucksampleclearance2106]

💯❤️👍🏻+bandaid

[@mattierenton701]

watched you for a long time, glad your doing what you do, love your long rambly videos, really relaxing !!!. was genuinely heartbroken for you after watching a certain livestream, big love to you x

[@gerald8573]

This might be a stupid question but I heard that hard drives were sensitive to moving them around while they operate. How is this one not affected?

[@PancakeSparkle]

@@gerald8573 They are only sensitive when you move them excessively, I have personally moved running hdds with no problems, they have mechanisms to prevent damage, some even have drop protection mechanisms, where if you drop it, it forcefully retracts the arm with the heads, and stops the platters from spinning, hard drives are smarter than you think!

[@Plainapple287]

@@gerald8573 it’s realistically the same as apple’s iPod, adding shockproof foam/rubber gaskets around it makes the hard drive near invincible provided you aren’t absolutely trying to break it, plus the device being stainless steel also helped with some level of durability

[@limedashseven]

Nokia was literally the first one that used an SSD as a boot drive and an HDD for storing files

[@zahirulalamlaskar]

OG pcmasterrace!

[@Violant3]

and they didn't need to come up with stupid names for it like "fusion drive" 👀

[@limedashseven]

@@Violant3 It's part of the evolution, i suppose

[@allentoyokawa9068]

Yeah the Japanese built it for them

[@benNdaKen]

@@Violant3 are u literally think fusion drive is a stupid name or u just wanna hate on apple? Fusion drive is actually a Accurate name for What it is. A Combination (Fusion) of a HDD and a SSD.

[@miguelhamrol6567]

The photos on that camera aren't bad. They're definitely a lot better than some of those Chinese clones featured in your videos.

[@toshineon]

Kinda makes you wonder where they manage to find cameras worse than on a phone from 2006.

[@rookie8302]

@@toshineon they probably buy them $5 for 5000

[@hasuo9749]

what's bad there is the display camera is as you said just fine lol

[@startedtech]

@@toshineon part of it is probably putting literally zero effort into tuning the camera software

[@allentoyokawa9068]

It is a Sony senor that is why

[@BradGryphonn]

WOW! That tiny hard drive is just...way too cute. It's still hard to comprehend that it is as small as an SD card even when seeing them side-by-side. When you opened it I was instantly reminded of wristwatch mechanical components (complications I think they're called). Yep, phone techamology has advanced at insane speeds over the past 30-odd years. I worked on a demolition crew in the late 80s and the boss had one of those huge 'mobile phones' in his work truck. The handpiece was like a WW2 walkie-talkie.

[@Intelwinsbigly]

I miss the tiny hard drives. So magical.

[@musiclove6237]

Some info you didn't ask for: those vocal songs are actually originals produced by a company called Epic Sound, hence copyright claim doesn't detect them. Sadly the composer (Asbjoern Andersen) was under very strict contracts, so he can't discuss individual ringtones or their singers. So we might never know who the singer is.

[@manojkale4408]

The Nokia N91 has been praised with an impeccable reputation of the best sounding mobile phone ever produced (the majority of stand alone portable music players can hardly compete with it either). The audio reproduction is spot on and is comparable to high end music systems. It is also considered to have the loudest audio output on a mobile phone. It's 'Loudness' and 'Stereo widening' effects, when used together, provide astonishing tonal clarity and dynamic range. The Nokia N91 uses a special DSP-33 chip set made by Toshiba and a powerful in-built Harman Kardon amplifier to boost up its volume while maintaining acoustics, resulting in louder, deep bass and rich sound with perfect low, mid range & a slightly damped high range frequency which has not been achieved by any iPod or Sony Walkmans. The slight damping in the high frequency is a boon for music listeners as it wont strain the ears even after prolonged use. This is one of the few standard hand held devices which can drive high end & higher impedance headset's with considerable volume. Test conducted, the N91 wins over iPod Nano in its signal to noise ratio, output power at full volume, and output at 10-100 Hz.

[@s8wc3]

22:56 That google page is cached from the last time the previous owner used it in 2009!

[@chrisgoat6435]

Yo momma is cached from the last time the previous owner used it in 2009!

[@s8wc3]

@@chrisgoat6435 Oh shit!

[@gjeraldh2989]

26:00

[@philjtephenson41]

I had a few of these, loved them completely...this is a real blast from the past, THANKS MR S!!!!

[@gytax01]

Man, SD cards really changed the game, even though most people don't even use them in their phones nowadays and a lot of phones don't even support it.

[@MrJ0mmy]

my first 1gb sd card was 50nzd now you can get 128gb sd card for 14nzd

[@bk109]

@@MrJ0mmy Could be worse, lol - I still remember my first drive (240mb) and first usb (128mb) costing an arm and a leg (call it 100$ apiece) , lol and now there are now watches with more RAM than my first PC had storage XD @DoingStuffLazy - I wonder how much longer people that actually like expandable storage will be able to get new devices, 'cause sooner or later those will go the way of the dodo or user-replaceable batteries :D (or 3.5mm jacks, though *knocks on wood* the Nokia 8.3 still has both mSD and a 3.5mm jack )

[@WahyuSetiawan-sz4lc]

Most who don't use them are the one who doesn't know it even existed.

[@johndripper]

They use emmc which is flash storage same as microsd card pendrive :)

[@FlameRat_YehLon]

@@WahyuSetiawan-sz4lc UHS-I SD cards are rather slow, while UHS-II ones are almost as expensive as if you were to get the larger capacity of whatever phone you are buying anyway, yet it's still not as fast. Currently the only reason for removable storage on a phone I can think of is for data security concerns, but otherwise there really isn't much reason to have SD card slot on phones anymore

[@Honeybearsphone]

Love to see someone be able to figure out the pinouts and mount that hard drive to a PCB to make into a thumb drive

[@michaelsampson1001]

I have one of these, all boxed since I used it way back, after watching this I opened the box, the ear bud foam crumbled away on touch, and the usb cable after unfolding cracked and broke showing the shielding wires. Everything else was ok. I had 75 minutes of Live 8 video pre installed. Fantastic stuff you do!

[@djsherz]

I remember getting one of these in 2006. Think I only had it a few weeks though, the hard drive failed on it. Took it back to the shop and swapped it for another Nokia with conventional solid state storage. Fascinating machine though. I think Nokia were a bit late to the party with this one - by the time this phone came out, the capacity and price of flash storage was catching up very fast.

[@Muffincakeswithsugar]

I love these kind of videos and I especially love seeing Camera tests from these old phones, I'd love to see more vids like this from legitimate devices!

[@toshineon]

I love goofy old school cell phones. A lot of them are very underwhelming compared to modern phones, obviously. But there's such an incredible variety in design and utility that I find way more fascinating than modern smartphones, which I don't really have much to say about. Oh, and by the way, the WiFi problem could be that your network is using a too new security standard. This can be changed in your router settings if you really wanna try it that bad.

[@danimayb]

As a person who was using these devices back then, I can totally agree with you! lol The phone market was so cool.. And the innovations were pushing boundaries for mobile phones with sometimes whacky ideas. The last big innovation was the iphone, Which gave us the smartphone as we know and use today.. But since then, It's all been pretty much the same.. Just improved upon each year (which even that process has come to a crawl). All smartphones nowadays are basically the same.

[@the_mariocrafter]

@@danimayb 2015 was the last cool year. 2016 and onward was boring phones. Mainly just Samsung and Apple and nobody else.

[@chrisgoat6435]

2015?? 😂 You must be very, very very young

[@chrisgoat6435]

Even if you are so young. If you think from 2016 and now there are only these 2....... Good lord, go read something and stop playing minecraft 😂

[@toshineon]

@@chrisgoat6435 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnjIlaahmM96pdk

[@trakaiszeks]

Important note: The internal amp built into n91 does not output to the inbuilt speaker. It outputs on headphones. You can plug decent set of speakers into it even as it's perfectly capable to handle them.

[@SantaClaw]

I had the N80, and N82, Last N phone I had, was the N900

[@TemporalOnline]

I still use my n900 with game gripper for emulating N64 and below... though mine only go up to 900mhz

[@josericardogs1435]

Dawning, Nuance, Listen, Come Fill Me In, Destiny, Swimming, Everlasting, Nocturnal, Trance and Coconut are the best Nokia ringtones ever!

[@jason54953]

At the time Nokia really had some revolutionary technologies. I was happy that you mentioned the N95, damn that was a great phone.

[@hmklegend2791]

22:25 Brings back some memories with this tone

[@PT94x]

It's crazy how good the ringtones on these 2000's phones were compared to the ones on new phones. Even though I didn't have this particular phone back in the day, hearing those ringtones still made me feel nostalgic, especially Decor. Those were the days...

[@CapsLock33]

I had so many Nokia phones in my life and I loved every single one of them.Thanks for making a video of Nokia's phones.

[@seanet1310]

What a cool novelty and good to see the HDD holding up after all this time. Keep up the unique vids Smoorez. From memory Windows live messages that was just updated MSN messenger was replaced by Skype not that anyone uses Skype now

[@arkvsi8142]

HDD are a lot more durable than SDD

[@hariranormal5584]

@@arkvsi8142 ...?

[@vitabudi]

@@arkvsi8142 but HDD also more fragile too. they cant withstand a lot of vibration and if you drop a Hard drive it will probably be dead

[@Sapple498]

Wow, fantastic video on this phone! The funny thing is, I have a N91 just like this in my room from when my father used it back then... I always noticed this phone made a funny sound every time I were to use it, never knew it was actually a hard drive! I would've never guessed I had one of the smallest hard drives ever manufactured!

[@greyshadow9498]

That's amazing. I've had microdrives in CF cards (which I thought were incredible) , but never anything THAT small! I should get one just for the novelty

[@RisingRevengeance]

The ipod mini used one of those right? It's the only time I've encountered them

[@greyshadow9498]

@@RisingRevengeance Yes I believe you are correct, that would have been right about the end of the drives, because CF cards were starting to surpass them. (And naturally did most flash cards).

[@nics9840]

Hearing that 400 odd dollars was expensive back then is crazy to me, can’t find many half decent phones new at that price here in Australia (used is a different story)

[@drand1millionotherpeopleha513]

That video footage quality brought back memories from 2010-2016 when I was using a nokia and was a kid.

[@axltim8329]

Ah yes, this video makes me wanna back to my childhood! The N91, the Ringtones and the SymbianOS really reminds me when my mum gave me her N91 to me and i was happy coz as a 12 yrs old having this Slide phone are cool! Too bad i lost my N91 when i moved to my new house

[@RisingRevengeance]

8GB on your phone at that time was insane

[@AnonyDave]

That strange, narrow point in history where hard drives were physically small enough to do this job, while being cheaper than the equivalent amount of flash. Ever so shortly later the price of flash really started to drop and then there was just zero reason for these little hard drives to exist 😆

[@am_pm.17]

Sadly yeah. Flash prices were dropping rapidly around the time this came out. Sony switched entirely to flash for its digital Walkman players in 2007. Only Apple still made use of it for iPod classics into the '10s. And I can't think of other mobile phones that had these by that time.

[@leonardodavidenriquezsilva7169]

that HDD would be a pretty cool keychain , i imagine the HDD open and encased in resin, that would be pretty cool

[@TheFernando9431]

I’m impressed by two things the HDD size and the photos, I mean the quality is great for an 15 year phone and the look good today, I mean that camera with the current software camera enhancements would look awesome

[@claudiu7909]

Although I love how most phones this days are similar and able to perform all the task required, I really miss the ingenuity that went in the phones back in the 2000s

[@davidoli]

Please revisit the N95! It's always cool to see this phone, would love to see the emulators too since i never had a chance to own a Symbian phone back in the day and had to live with the crappy emulators for Java.

[@adamzahoy1749]

OMG the video mic is excellent even with the wind noise. I am impressed!

[@AradhayPlayChannel]

I had one nokia N72 purchased in 2006 I had lost the phone under the air conditioning and thought it would have damaged but I found it week ago and it still works 😀😀

[@Internetvitamin]

I had one before.. it's heavy , it's my favorite phone back then. the camera is the best in it's generation when compared to other phone.

[@Robwantsacurry]

The back cover safety is to prevent a hard drive head crash. A hard drive's head skims the surface on a cushion of air, when it is not being used the head is parked on the center or edge of the disk, if the battery was to fall out when the hard drive was operating the head would crash into the surface of the disk stripping the magnetic surface off and rendering that part of the disk unusable. Many full size hard drives have a bank of capacitors to give them enough time to park the heads if the power is removed (SSD's can also feature them to finish a write and prevent corruption).

[@ransom4164]

i love the fact that you put the soundtrack of L.A Noire when u showing the photos!

[@RuruFIN]

I knew that those had SMALL drives but the size of a SD card? Damn!

[@goobisoft4873]

I was already impressed with harddriver how they work and are very fragile and now this tiny hdd makes it on to an another level 😍

[@johanklausen]

wonderful phone, bought 2 of these new 2006, wanted a good music player but not another device to lug around. then this was perfect, 4gb storage, tele fom and music player in one. I was really happy with it then. and as you say, really good sound quality in the headphones

[@FixerUK]

I still own one of these and the amp inside them are definitely louder than most modern phones and is pretty good at driving some higher ohm headphones.

[@sammy61187]

Just love that random mid 2000's design haha phones aren't crazy and fun anymore

[@JaredConnell]

Everything is just a big ol screen with some cameras on back. Nothing stands out besides having a nicer screen or better cameras lol. Soooo booooring

[@deadmanwalking93]

What is even more impressive is that the guy could take the hard drive apart to peak inside, and put it all back together to have it work normally. Try taking apart a modern phone and putting it back together. Modern phones are designed to look pretty at the cost of everything else: functionality, durability, serviceability, and CREATIVITY. When all phones look more or less the same, no smartphone companies can claim to be 'revolutionary' in their design. Compared to the companies now, Nokia used to make art in the form of mobile phones.

[@RestoreTechnique]

I remember this phone, I always thought the hard drive took up the whole width of the phone, and that was the reason the top half was wider than the bottom. It was a cool phone at the time. Thanks for opening up the HDD 😀

[@djfernando16]

Wow. You actually opened the smallest hdd in the world! Toshiba went in to guiness book of world records with that exact drive (different control board) in 2004.

[@hmklegend2791]

FYI, this was the first video that I have watched in your channel since 29 Oct, 2021

[@Lathi33]

Okay. I'm genuinely amazed at the image quality from a 2MP 2006 phone camera. Neat

[@iddqds]

i am into computers for a long time and this is the first time i see a HDD of this size. amazing.

[@goqwertygo]

My first phone was a MotoRokr Z6M in 2007 From Alltel Wireless. It was a fantastic MP3 replacement with a standard 3.5MM jack with multi media keypad that slid over the numpad ,2MP camera, and SD expansion There were several versions. Mine was glossy dark grey silver body with green/blue backlit keys. I used p2k commander to modify mine by replacing the slide sound with the transformers sound and deleting all the junk ringtones to make more room for my own MP3 ringtones. I still have the phone and still have a bunch of my old videos of modding it on my youtube😄

[@H34D5H07]

I was a Sony Ericsson user back then, my P1 was an awesome smartphone. It also was the first phone I had that supported wifi, wich wasnt a common feature.

[@muwen1006]

Love your videos so much Today, it totally made my day

[@alixxworkshop846]

Amazing!!! Masterpiece of engineering for that time!

[@ReikiMaulana]

You got me looking for these ringtones on KZbin

[@RadioWerwolf]

38:48 talking about being careful and shmearing the hard drive with a sharp metal screwdriver. Bright. And talking about the joystick, Siemens S65, introduced in 2004 had a very successful joystick on it.

[@JefryMongoss]

not used but i do remember repairing a few of them. in the service software it will tell you how many times its had to emergency park the HDD from a drop detect or whatever, they had a certain number that if it went over your warranty was voided.

[@argonautsuk]

Since I remember my self buying phones as a student back in the end of 90s I always buying a case. All my phones look like new

[@backyardaviator2920]

Fun fact: this is Nokia's First Attempt on a Music Phone that practically has a Driving power from up to more than 1Vrms, practically the nearest thing you could get as a "Quad DAC" Phone back in 2006,the 2nd Phone that nokia Released that pretty much has a Similar specs would be the 5800 Xpressmusic,that is the only Vintage phone I have right now that could Drive my Clubky Pioneer SE-550 Headphones that my Dad gave me Years ago,those things are hard to drive in the audiophile perspective

[@joemck85]

That bad speaker sounds like it has a dented driver membrane. It usually comes from being bumped with a tool or finger when the device is taken apart, though it's also possible to do it with air pressure. It's a bit like a dent on a car, just on a smaller scale and more delicate -- some part that's supposed to be convex has been "popped" so that it's concave, or occasionally vise-versa. And like car dents you can often fix them by popping them the other way. Membrane designs are usually very symmetrical so you can easily see the bit that's messed up. To "pull" a dent out, you can poke near it, or you can use one of those tiny red straws that come with canned air and suck through it to grab and pull that spot on the speaker. Or sometimes you can sometimes fix it just by blowing and then sucking at the speaker grate, without even opening the thing it's in. I haven't heard it happen to more modern speakers, but I'm not sure whether that's some difference in how they're made, or just that I only take things apart when they're broken these days rather than out of curiosity to see what's inside. If I recall, iPods all used Microdrives, so only a little bigger than this one. I had a Creative Zen Xtra though, which had a standard 40 GB 2.5" IDE laptop HDD inside that dictated the device's size. Since it took a regular drive, I was able to buy a normal laptop drive to upgrade it much cheaper, with an upper limit of 128 GB due to addressing limits. Of course today 2.5" IDE drives aren't as common, iPod flash kits are readily available, and high capacity SD cards are super cheap, so iPods are now easier to upgrade.

[@tomrow32]

That hard drive has a MMCPlus connector on it. There's a good chance you can replace it with a more typical MMC flash memory card when it gives out.

[@ddaman7854]

Oh wow.. I had this phone! still have it in a box somewhere. I also had the N95 & the N8 which was a great phone, slippery due to the metal casing but a great phone, fond memories of that one. Man, Nokia phones were so good.. before the dark times (Microsoft), the last one I had was the Nokia 8 Sirocco, I liked that phone a lot too and I waited and waited for the next flagship device from them but no, they didn't seem to be interested in making flagship devices so in the end I just bought my Note 20 ultra.

[@rolandhazuki8787]

Nice video, do about Nokia Communicator series too such as 9300, 9500 & E90

[@SennLens]

2.5" and 3.5" is very common HDD and SSD SATA based hard drive to see in most stores like online store such as Shopee and Lazada or local store. But it's quite rare to see some hard drive on a phone. Mostly the hard drive I commonly see is using emmc or UFS type of hard drive in most Android based smartphones.

[@scouse1967]

I had a few Nokia phones through the years and my favourite has to be the N-Gage. That was one brilliant mobile phone/gaming device.

[@thedarkknight1971]

15:07 - And why not? There was (and I wish there still were) the fine collab between two great gents (Mr Nick and Mr Fred) who called themselves the excellently titled "Lemon Jelly"... They created some brilliant tracks for those of us regarded as 'amused of minds' say.... Like asking us "What do you do... In the bath?".... 🤔😏😉

[@BradGryphonn]

Years ago, I had one of those Motorolas that had the big 'slimline' battery on the back. I also had the optional 'long-life' battery that made the phone thicker than a packet of cigarettes.

[@Intelwinsbigly]

Would love to have that option today!

[@hasuo9749]

I love that phone only because i know how much effort was put in it.

[@LookAlikeFilm]

Just a random hunch, maybe the WLAN would let you connect if you set the phone's time/date correctly? The router (and maybe its DHCP) may not want to work with a device trying to log in with it reporting a system time extremely in the past. Has to deal with security certificates not being allowed to issue in the past I think. I've seen some webpages with HTTPS not work even if your system date/time is less than 1 day off from reality. [I don't have a great deal of knowledge on how security works so I may just be talking nonsense]

[@techyrock]

Humming Bird,Electric Eel, Plasma, Jig, Rock, Clapper, Trace, Espionage best Nokia ringtones of all time there are a few more favorite of mine sorry If I don't remember many of them, I have used at least 200 or more Nokia phones from back in the day, I loved phones from back then one of these days I'll bring back the Nostalgia on my channel been collecting these phones

[@silverfoenix]

My friends where tossing this mobile around in the car, it ricochet then fell down from the window then got ran over by the wheels... The back-cover that have the harddisk got BENT into U-Shape! The one responsible got a hammer then pounded it to shape!!!! it still worked !!!!!!!!! My N91 needs a battery & software flashing (It got corrupted when I last tried to update it... OVI no longer exist though~)

[@salutetojohnlennon]

The ultimate music phone back in the day one of my dream phone then.

[@kylehurd6956]

The mid 2000's was a strange time for cellphones but cool ideas that did not pan out for most phones.

[@Joshtheweatherman]

This takes better pictures than most budget smartphones of today! 😂

[@WP7Nettwerk]

Finally I have time to watch. I love like this review. It was like a journey to the past. More like this videos.

[@joedooley7878]

With the ring tones, used to run the stocko tones, all my profiles were default, bar my general and than my school one, where it was just on vibrate \

[@STICKOMEDIA]

New subscriber, awesome video, I'll be back for more

[@FudgeEyeNah_]

if nokia adapted the early android they could be top tier phone still

[@mattdavis9601]

Or if they used real full-fat Windows instead of Windows Phone OS.

[@MrAndreCoutinho]

Just great memories from this phone, the build quality is absurd, solid as a stainless steel brick. It still looks futuristic. And for the time, very advanced, it was my first 3G phone and it was awesome to have Wi-Fi onboard. Luckily I never had any issues with the hard drive. Audio quality was stellar with a 3rd party headphone set, the oem earbuds wasn’t so great. The camera was alright, considering the phone was a music-first device, shame it didn’t had autofocus. It’s downsides were the low resolution display, the tiny cramped and keypad, the awful joystick and also battery life.

[@paranoiia8]

I always wondered if you have those rare SE phones, like G900, W960 or maybe even Xperia Pureness? I would love to see them and how they actually work today compared to modern phones... I had G700 for short time and It was... crap but still it was looked nice...

[@EvzenEmanuel]

39:40 newer MMC cards (called MMC+ plus) had exactly the same contact layout. So I believe this HDD is using the MMC+ pinout and protocol. Would be interesting if someone tried to replace the HDD with MMC+ card.

[@nateholden7598]

It is quite surprising the cam quality is actually ok mostly. Also I am just a person into old tech I didn’t have this phone when I was young. But it seems pretty cool and now I want one.

[@mattdavis9601]

I'm going through your back catalog a bit while you're on break. This was really fun and informative. I knew a bit about the HDD as it was mentioned briefly in a Janus Cycle video on the history of hard drives. I knew nothing about the phone it went in though other than it was a Nokia. Did they even sell these in the States? Semi related; the first iPhone had 4, 8, or 16GB of flash storage. Why didn't they use the bigger iPod's HDD for massive amounts of storage? If it worked well enough in that mobile application, and they had tons of experience with it by that point, so it should've been good enough for an iPhone too.

[@io_inc]

Dammmmn I'm old, I still remember this bad boy back in Highschool

[@JimBiddle.]

40:34 That is just, adorable.

[@ahah1785]

Man 2005 is apparently retro now ...time flies i guess=)

[@MrTheThoks]

I still got one ! Great phone.

[@DhanjitMr]

Toshiba hats off.... lovely little dude sitting there....

[@doitaljosh]

I used to jump on the trampoline to Nokia's "Box" ringtone that my mom played on her 3595. Simple times.

[@premmani]

40:22 Wow! That is just Wow! THANK YOU 😍

[@ashton9699]

It's not just you - the N91 has a Toshiba DAC and dedicated Harman/Kardon headphone amplifier. It offers extremely good headphone audio quality especially for a phone, as opposed to a dedicated music player like the iPod but even back then it held up to them. Given that headphone output quality has taken a backseat now in the few phones that even still have a jack, the N91 likely outperforms most 2022 smartphones in that regard.

[@dzBOXgaming]

many persons changed the hard drive of the ipod by a card reader like is there a way do it on the N91???

[@rincewindthewizzard6594]

I wonder if you can replace faulty HDD with TF or SD card like with ipods ?

[@DavidMeloOfficial]

I don't know if someone notices this, but the connectors of this "mini" HDD are the same as an MMCplus card (similar to an SD/MMC card but with more pins). I remember some of my friends using a Nokia 3650 or a 6600 (not sure) with exactly pinout position, but with half of the size the RS-MMC card version. @ SMOOREZ will be nice to try with an MMCplus.

[@user-xu2pi6vx7o]

Nokia N90 next please! I always loved it's weird, camcorder, schtick!

[@mrsaizo0000]

Oh, I do remember that phone! Found one (garbage), but got the small HDD out of it. I'll see if I can find a picture of it - it was really cool. But it was a real pain in the behind to get it out..

[@BradGryphonn]

Yes, please show more retro phones. That was really interesting. Better than watching another clone. They're all the same really.

[@aprilkolwey4779]

I like how the hard drive in the thumbnail is a modern-ish 12TB Seagate :P

[@GameHerbert]

The UI brings back memories

[@jj74qformerlyjailbreak3]

Years ago I had a 3gb seagate round usb drive. When I took it apart it actually had a 1” spinning disk. Tiniest little HD.

[@jj74qformerlyjailbreak3]

Yea some hard drive in this thing. Wrote previous comment before 1 min in.

[@jj74qformerlyjailbreak3]

2005 era. Seagate had an 8 gig one too. Mine head crashed. Hardly hear it. It was cute though. Wish I still had it. It was limewire BFF

[@711jastin]

people have little idea how huge it was to have 8gb memory back then. i had a 1gb Wins CE smart phone back in the days, i can fit 6 high quality mp3 album in it, while my buds' can barely fit a mix tape of theirs, this beast right here can easily pull off 50 albums. it's like having a 512 gb phone storage today.

[@slashkizar]

Gracias por compartir este dato tan interesante! Saludos desde Mexico!

[@That_Guy78]

I've never seen a HDD this small. I know some early digital cameras had 1 inch hard drives, but even those were larger than this one.